According to Wikipedia (note: which can’t always be trusted), here is the dance schedule for the chosen celebrities and professional partners for each week on Dancing With The Stars Season 12. What do you think of it?

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Hmmm…I dunno how I feel about them doing rumba so soon. I think it’s good to let the couples build a few weeks of familiarity & chemistry before thrusting them into such an overtly romantic dance. But then again, if Mike is going to go home as early as some are saying, let’s get at least one potential chest-baring dance out of him before he departs 😉

I wish they’d bring back the Mambo, and Salsa as well, those were great dances. I agree about having the Rumba so early, it’s a difficult dance, technically and performance-wise. It seems they are trying to make the second week a “pretty” night (that is if this schedule is true or not). Does anyone notice that the Argentine Tango is done on or close to week 4 a lot? Season 8 was done exactly on week 4, Season 9 was just one week after it, Season 10 had it on Week 6 (farther away I suppose), and Season 11 did it on Week 4. I guess that’s a good idea because the AT also requires chemistry and comfort between the partners. Really glad they’re doing the Samba a bit later, because it’s a super hard Latin dance, I don’t like it when they throw Samba’s at couples in Week 3. I’m looking forward to the Samba Dance-off though (again, if this schedule is real or fake).

I don’t like the rumba on week two but charelston marathon sounds perfect for Mark since from what i ahve seen of it on movies its all about the facial expersions lol. Love Mark but hate the facial expressions sometimes lol.

I know i guess what i mean is that it changes almost everyday in the preseason due to the fact that anyone can change so i guess i ment if there were anymore resources of info behind that list. Sorry for the misunderstandment.

I really hope they’re not ditching the group dance number altogether. It’s one of the things I most looked forward to each season. Team Dances are okay but I like the ones where the judges get a time-out and it’s just for the fans.

CK, there was no group dance last season, and I’m trying to remember, but I don’t think there was one the season before. I think they did away with it totally when they introduced the marathon thing… Although I welcome anyone who can correct me.

I don’t like this schedule, it feels like they are totally doing away with each pair doing 2 individual dances. Each week where there is normally 2 dances, they’ve replaced the second individual dances with gimmicks.

And they said that they liked all the themes from last season, and are planning more? Last season, the ONLY WEEKS without “themes” was week 1 and week 10.

So, are we having themes every week as well as gimmicks every week? Can we say OVERKILL?????

@Lori – The only season that had both a group dance and a marathon dance was season 9 – aka the kitchen sink season that had just about everything thrown into it. It was the season that they did a hustle group dance (choreographed by Corky) and a mambo marathon (which Derek & Joanna won). That was the last season that actually had a “group dance”. It definitely feels like they’ve replaced the group dance with the marathon dance now – which sucks, because it’s hard to see everyone in the marathon dance and it’s for competition now, whereas the group dance was a chance for all the couples to just let loose and have fun without worrying about being scored.

@Jack & Will – YES! Bring back the mambo or salsa…I don’t think we need both (because they’re so similar to the naked eye, much like the jitterbug & charleston), but it would be nice to bring one or the other back for the sake of variety. I’m wondering if it came down to TPTB deciding to axe one of the Latin dances for the sake of time, and the mambo was an easy target because it’s not one of the 5 official Latin dances and some of the pros aren’t all that familiar with it – the only pro on the show right now that’s done mambo competitively is Tony. Whatever the reason was, it sucks and I wish they’d bring it back! *stomps foot in protest*